Precipice

Logistics expert Jane Malcolm got her training under fire literallyin the Gulf War, where movement of supplies and equipment meant the difference between life and death. Eight years later, shes running her own logistics consulting firm. But as shestands on the brink of her greatest victory, she will be swept into a new, high-stakesgame with an opponent she may not even recognizeuntil its too late.Poised to close a multi-national deal, Jane learns that a plane crash has claimed the life of her father, Royal Akers, head of a faltering superstore chain. Determined to restoreher fathers legacy, she races against time to find ways around the Akers dynastyswoes and undercover their source. For it rapidly becomes clear that these are not random mishaps, but corporate sabotage. International trading partners suffer the fallout, ratcheting the stakes even higher. Economic disaster threatens to topple a fragile govern-ment. If Jane makes one false move, it could be her last. Tense, taut, Precipice is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, creating an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario.

Born into a family of writers in New York City, Daniel Pollock grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and attended UCLA. He joined the Los Angeles Times Syndicate as an editor in 1977, leaving in 1989 when his first thriller, Lair of the Fox (HarperCollins) was published. Three more novels followed: Duel of Assassins (Pocket Books), Pursuit Into Darkness (Pocket Books), and now, Precipice (Council of Logistics Management). With his wife, Constance, Mr. Pollock co-edited The Book of Uncommon Prayer (Word). They live in southern California with their two children, Jane and Edward.